Top Fundraising Colleges and Universities, in Total Amount Raised, 2012

The Council for Aid and Education conducted the Voluntary Support of Education survey, collecting information on colleges and Universities who raised the most money in 2012. From 2006 to 2012, private contributions to colleges and universities in the United States increased by 6.3% to $29.75 billion.

Rank

College or University

Amount raised

1.

Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.)

$832,344,826

2.

Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)

613,985,000

3.

University of Southern California (Los Angeles, Calif.)

469,646,622

4.

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)

430,455,336

5.

Columbia University (New York, N.Y.)

423,849,107

6.

Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.)

406,925,075

7.

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa.)

392,420,770

8.

Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)

391,315,420

9.

Duke University (Durham, N.C.)

372,328,154

10.

University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

364,779,738

11.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.)

329,158,304

12.

University of Chicago (Chicago, Ill.)

328,328,020

13.

University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, Wis.)

325,336,779

14.

University of Washington (Seattle, Wash.)

300,199,601

15.

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

293,403,123

16.

University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.)

288,750,059

17.

New York University (New York, N.Y.)

287,587,458

18.

University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.)

282,610,619

19.

Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.)

278,553,274

20.

University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco, Calif.)

251,945,342

Source: Council for Aid to Education, a subsidiary of RAND. Web: www.cae.org.